Foreign Policy Discussion Series, Please call the library to assure a briefing book will be held for you. Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. March 5 – India Changes Course

Celebrate all things Irish with the famous troubadours, The Kerry Boys. Irish music and a good time are guaranteed. Wearing green is encouraged! Part of the WOW! celebration, this event is at the Woodbury Senior Center.

Teen Tech Week continues with programming the makey makey board to play a banana piano, drums on play-doh or tetris on any conductive surface. Drop in program, just stop by.

3:00 PM
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5:00 PM

Teen Drop-In Program

Teens in grades 6 -12 are invited to "Drop-In" on Tuesday afternoons to hang out, use the library's WiiU or play board games. Ongoing, Tuesdays. Light snacks provided by the Friends of the Library.

Drop-in, grades 6-12. No school - no drop in!

6:30 PM

Strategies for Maximizing Your Social Security Benefits

Contact: Woodbury Library 203-263-3502

Our workshop is an opportunity to learn some key concepts everyone should understand before making this crucial retirement planning decision. Please join your hosts, Michael Alimo and David Weyner of U.S.A. Financial & Tax Services, for a very informative and educational event. Discussion highlights will include:• Strategies to maximize your Social Security benefits.• How benefits are calculated and simple strategies available to increase them.• Coordinating benefits: why married couples have added options for when to apply.• How will my Social Security benefits be taxed?• What are the taxable implications if I collect benefits and continue to work part-time?

Teen Tech Week wraps up with simple programming and circuit building using the Arduino programming boards. Learn the basics and control numerous LED's, servo motors, LCD's and more. Drop in program, just stop on by.

Teen Tech Week wraps up with simple programming and circuit building using the Arduino programming boards. Learn the basics and control numerous LED's, servo motors, LCD's and more. Drop in program, just stop on by.

3:30 PM

St. Patrick's Day Story and Craft Hour

Kids in grades pre-K - 2 will listen to stories, enjoy snacks, and make crafts for St. Patrick's day! Drop in, hosted by the WMS PR Club.

Teens in grades 6 -12 are invited to "Drop-In" on Tuesday afternoons to hang out, use the library's WiiU or play board games. Ongoing, Tuesdays. Light snacks provided by the Friends of the Library.

Drop-in, grades 6-12. No school - no drop in!

6:00 PM

Recipes for Spring Cleaning with Michelle Wenis

Contact: Woodbury Library 203-263-3502

You've heard by now that Essential Oils are an incredible alternative to chemical cleaners and a fantastic wellness support. Choose from a few different essential oil cleaning "recipes" and go home with your very own 4oz glass spray bottle blend of Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade plant based cleaner for your home. Cost is $3 to cover supplies. Advanced registration requested to ensure we have enough supplies to go around. Facilitator is Michelle Wenis of Green Woman & Your Childbirth, LLC: www.greenwomanyc.wordpress.com,

Carol Milford is a young, liberated woman from Saint Paul, Minnesota, who marries a small-town doctor named Will Kennicott. Persuaded to move to Gopher Prairie, her husband’s home-town, Carol is horrified to find herself living in an ugly, back-water community. A satiric depiction of Carol’s attempt to raise the inhabitants of Gopher Prairie to her own smug level, “Main Street” is one of Sinclair Lewis’s most significant works.

7:00 PM

Great Decisions

Contact: 203-263-3502

Foreign Policy Discussion Series, Please call the library to assure a briefing book will be held for you. Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. March 19 – The U.S. and Africa : The Rise and Fall of Obamamania

An educator from White Memorial Conservation Center in Litchfield will teach children about the changes animals make from winter to spring. Children will meet a surprise visitor! Sponsored by the Friends of the Woodbury Public Library. Registraion is required.

Art Therapist Karen Anderson offers a monthly arts program at the WPL on the 4th Thursday of every month. This month put your fingers in the sand and think of summer, make a sandcastle inside! second in this 4 part series, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. All materials will be supplied. Registration is required.

Teens in grades 6 -12 are invited to "Drop-In" on Tuesday afternoons to hang out, use the library's WiiU or play board games. Ongoing, Tuesdays. Light snacks provided by the Friends of the Library.

Drop-in, grades 6-12. No school - no drop in!

7:00 PM

Islamism: it's the thought that counts

Leslie S. Lebl, a fellow of the American Center on Democracy and principal of Lebl Associates, is an independent scholar who specializes in European security and defense issues, the European Union, Balkan peacekeeping, Russian politics and economy, and Islamism in Europe. A former Foreign Service Officer, she served as political advisor to NATO commanders in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as minister counselor for political affairs at the U.S. mission to the European Union in Brussels. She speaks French, German, Russian, Polish and Spanish. Since 2003, she has resided in Woodbury with her husband Giora. In this talk, she will discuss Islamism and the threat it poses to the West. This event is hosted at the Woodbury Senior Center.

Foreign Policy Discussion Series, Please call the library to assure a briefing book will be held for you. Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. April 2 – Syria’s Refugee Crisis

Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in three acts by Thornton Wilder is considered a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Set in Grover's Corners, N.H., the play features a narrator, the Stage Manager, who sits at the side and explains the action. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the other characters reveal themselves to the audience. Considered enormously innovative for its lack of props and scenery and revered for its sentimental but at bottom realistic depictions of middle-class America, Our Town soon became a staple of American theater.

7:00 PM

Great Decisions

Contact: 203-263-3502

Foreign Policy Discussion Series, Please call the library to assure a briefing book will be held for you. Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. April 16 – Human Trafficking : A Serious Challenge to Humanity

Foreign Policy Discussion Series, Please call the library to assure a briefing book will be held for you. Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. April 30 – Brazil’s Metamorphosis

First published in 1956, PEYTON PLACE uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town. At the center of the novel are three women, each with a secret to hide: Constance MacKenzie, the original desperate housewife; her daughter Allison, whose dreams are stifled by small-town